Five House Republicans introduced legislation on Monday in Atlanta at a press conference, rolling out a national “election integrity” bill while warning Americans about possible Democratic deception surrounding the American Confidence in Elections (ACE) Act.
(Video Credit: Atlanta News First)
The Republicans sit on the Committee on House Administration (CHA). They contend that the bill will give states the means to protect election integrity and restore voter confidence in the process. Democrats immediately claimed that it was rooted in former President Trump’s election denial.
The proposed legislation includes a photo ID requirement in order to cast a federal election ballot, bars non-citizens from voting in elections, requires annual maintenance of voter rolls, and prevents the mailing of unsolicited ballots to potential voters if rolls have not been properly maintained.
Rep. Bryan Steil (R-Wisc.), who is the committee chairman, proclaimed that the ACE Act will make it “easy to vote and hard to cheat,” and that it will give states access to federal resources to ensure they can do things as “simple” as removing voters from voter rolls upon their death.
“It should be this simple,” he asserted. Steil later referred to the act as “commonsense legislation” and “a rational approach that Americans can get behind.”
The left is going to be attacking the #ACEAct, just like they did in Georgia.
But Chairman @RepBryanSteil states the facts about the bill.
WATCH ⬇️ pic.twitter.com/sUVTQHDPYR
— House Admin. Committee GOP (@HouseAdmin) July 10, 2023
Today, I joined @RepBryanSteil and my @HouseAdmin colleagues in Atlanta, Georgia for the introduction of the American Confidence in Elections Act. The #AceAct will increase voter confidence, equip states with election integrity tools, and protect political speech.
Watch pic.twitter.com/NuIdoM1bnc
— Rep. Stephanie Bice (@RepBice) July 10, 2023
“This legislation is the most substantive and conservative election integrity legislation that will come before the House in over a generation,” Steil contended.
I’m in Atlanta, GA introducing the most conservative election integrity bill in over 20 years. Watch our hearing on the ACE Act starting soon! https://t.co/irDBIJQum7 pic.twitter.com/1Bblx7Vw8A
— Bryan Steil (@RepBryanSteil) July 10, 2023
Steil was joined by Reps. Barry Loudermilk (R-Ga.), Stephanie Bice (R-Okla.), Laurel Lee (R-Fla.), and Mike Carey (R-Ohio).
Loudermilk told those attending the rollout that the bill put incentives in place for other states to pass bills similar to the voting law Georgia passed in 2021, S.B. 202. That bill caused a meltdown among Democrats, who branded it “racist,” “voter-suppression,” “Jim Crow 2.0,” and “a redux of Jim Crow in a suit and tie.”
Fox News reported, “The committee stressed the significance for the roll-out of the new bill to be in Georgia because of the vast damage the state endured following the backlash to its bill. The damage included the MLB moving the All-Star game from Atlanta, which resulted in what some estimates said was a more than $100 million hit to the local economy.”
Steil told Fox News Digital that they expected pushback from Democrats even though the “voter-suppression” narrative surrounding Georgia’s previous bill was debunked after the state saw record turnout in the 2022 midterm elections.
Clean, accurate voter rolls help ensure elections are fair and secure. Chairman @RepBryanSteil‘s #ACEAct encourages states to conduct regular voter list maintenance and strengthen U.S. elections. pic.twitter.com/fDIlcYnODK
— House Admin. Committee GOP (@HouseAdmin) July 5, 2023
“Rest assured, the left is going to attack this legislation. It’s one of the reasons I think it’s important that we’re here in Georgia because we saw the left’s false attacks against voter integrity legislation previously,” he noted.
“I have no doubt that the left is going to attempt to attack, to mislead, to disguise the work that we’re doing. It’s all the more important that we’re here in the open holding hearings, not just in Washington, DC, but here in Atlanta, Georgia, and across the country, so people have the opportunity to read, to review the legislation,” Steil continued.
Loudermilk put forth a hypothetical scenario that Steil cited earlier, positing that under current laws in Washington, DC, any person who spends 30 days in the country, including a Russian national working at the Russian embassy, would be eligible to vote in the city’s mayoral elections, or even run for mayor themselves.
Last week, I introduced the DC Voter ID Act, as part of the larger ACE Act, to safeguard the integrity of elections in our nation’s capital.
My bill will make photo voter ID mandatory and introduce a citizenship requirement for voter registration which will put an end to… pic.twitter.com/Z3neg0arL3
— Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (@RepMTG) July 10, 2023
Even if the bill gets passed by a slim margin in the House of Representatives, it almost certainly would not advance through the Democratic-controlled Senate or be signed into law by President Biden.
This bill follows one presented by the Democrats, H.R. 1, the For the People Act. It was passed by the then-Democratic-controlled House in March 2021 but failed to make it through the Senate due to a lack of unanimous Democratic support.
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